Aonghus Og McAnally plays Personality Bingo with Tom Moran

On this week’s Personality Bingo, Tom Moran chats with Aonghus McAnally. Aonghus is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin and also trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI Company in New York. His appearances at the Abbey Theatre include Big Love, The Burial at Thebes, Romeo & Juliet and The Plough and the Stars, which also toured to The Barbican, London as part of The Abbey’s centenary celebrations. Elsewhere, Aonghus has appeared in The Nose (Performance Corporation), W. B. Yeats’ CúChulainn Cycle (R.H.A. Downstairs, Dublin and Riverside Studios, London), Myrmidons (Ouroboros), The Tempest (Corcadorca), Macbeth, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (All for Second Age), One– Healing with Theatre (Pan Pan), An Triail (Aisling Ghéar), Buile an Phíce (Amharclann de hÍde), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Not a Moment to Lose (Torn Curtain). Recent theatre includes Serious Money (Seeds Project for Rough Magic directed by Aoife Spillane Hinks), and The Nose directed by Jo Mangan for Performance Corporation. He most recently appeared in his hugely successful one man show Fight Night which he co-created with writer Gavin Kostick as part of the Fishamble/Dublin Theatre Festival “Show in a Bag” initiative and which went on to tour across Ireland and to win a nomination for Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2012.

Taz Kelleher is first and foremost a podcaster but also a graphic designer and presenter. Having honed her podcasting skills at the internationally respected Postloudness podcast network, situated in the Cards Against Humanity office in Chicago, she has returned to her home shores with a mission to bring podcasting to a wider Irish audience. As both a host of the critically acclaimed podcast In The Shower with Taz and Marcus, founding member of The Dublin Podcast Festival and network producer for the HeadStuff Podcast Network, Taz is closely involved with every stage of the process, from taking a podcast to pitch stage to helping the final product reach the audience it deserves. Outside of podcasting, Taz is one of the co-founders of the DIT Brendan Behan award, which recognises outstanding Irish talent. This has led her to conduct live interviews with the likes of Glen Hansard, Panti bliss and many more. Taz is also a graphic designer by day, designing the cover art for some of Ireland’s most listened podcasts.

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